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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42964280

Hi HN, Wanted to share a project I made over the weekend - a real-time fascism tracker. The site fetches recent news from trusted sources, filters it for keywords related to fascism and the current US administration, and then sends it to GPT-4o for classification according to the 14 characteristics of fascism described by Dr. Lawrence Britt. With the rapid pace of news in the US, especially post-election, it’s hard to keep up. I built this site so you can quickly see important topics and draw parallels with similar historical events. Would love to hear your thoughts. - Ryan

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the problem is that it’s using news articles, a big percentage of which are going to be corporate news, which will downplay any fascistic threats that may help their bottom line or hurt readership. They also may not cover stories that wont get many clicks.

It also seems to be mostly quantity based for determining severity. Which is fairly dumb, like many LLM based projects.